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FORGET Cabbage Patch kids, being a strawberry patch baby is where it's at.

Oliver Mathew James Girt caught everyone by surprise as he made his grand entrance into the world at 4.43am on Sunday outside Eumundi Strawberries. He is the youngest of five and the first boy for Noosaville couple Martin and Alison (pictured with Oliver).

Oliver's arrival was "sudden and frantic" as Alison had experienced small sporadic contractions for four days.

Despite an almighty pain at 2am on Sunday, she thought twice before waking her husband in case it was another false alarm.

"IT was only half an hour later that the contractions started coming three minutes apart and I went into panic stations," she said.

"We knew we weren't going to make it to the hospital, so we called an ambulance. They arrived eight minutes later and I was yelling that my waters broke in the kitchen as they pulled into the driveway.

"I had only woken my husband up 20 minutes before and he didn't know what day of the week it was."